Re: IPCop 2 on PC Engines APU and/or ALIX products

Dan Johansson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31.08.2015 06:24, David Christensen wrote:
> On 08/30/2015 07:56 AM, Dan Johansson wrote:
>> Interesting that you should ask ;-)
>> For exactly one week ago I installed IPCop on a brand new APU as my old
>> ALIX (which I have been happy with for many years) where starting to get
>> a bit "tired" (starting to generate some "out of memory" after updating
>> to 2.1.9).
>> I did have some hassle installing IPCop on the new HW as (from my point
>> of view) the "install kernel" does not "support" serial console.
>> I tried to change the bootloader to include "console=ttyS0,115200n8" on
>> the APPEND line, but this did not work. I also tried to do a PXE-boot
>> but it was the same issue here + iPXE (which the APU uses) is not 100%
>> compatible to "normal" PXE.
>> I ended up putting the SDD that I wanted to use in the APU into an old
>> PC, booted of the IPCop-Install-CD and started the installation there.
>> After the install was finished I customized the "extlinux.conf" file
>> (adding support for serial-console).
>> I hope I will be as happy with the APU as I was with the ALIX.
> 
> Thanks for the information.  :-)
> 
> 
> Could you please post the patch for extlinux.conf?

Sorry, I do not have a "patch" - but here the changes.

Add these two lines to the top of the file:
------------8<-------------
SERIAL 0 115200
CONSOLE 0
------------8<-------------

and add the console=... part to each APPEND-line:
------------8<-------------
APPEND mode=normal initrd=ipcoprd-3.4-3.img root=/dev/disk/by-label/root
ro panic=10 loglevel=4 console=ttyS0,115200n8
------------8<-------------
(the above is on one line).

Hope this helps
KR,
-- 
Dan Johansson
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